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Popular Movement (Morocco)
The Popular Movement ( ar, الحركة الشعبية; zgh, ⴰⵍⵃⴰⵔⴰⴽⴰ ⴰⵛⵛⴰⵄⴱⵉⵢⴰ; french: Mouvement populaire) is a royalist and traditionalist rural-focused political party in Morocco. It is a member of Liberal International. The party has a history of cooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, the National Rally of Independents and the Constitutional Union, since 1993. History The Popular Movement was founded in 1957 by the Berber tribal chief Mahjoubi Aherdane with help from Abdelkrim al-Khatib who founded later a splinter party (''Mouvement populaire démocratique et constitutionnel'') that became the Justice and Development Party. It was initially a rural party with conservative and tribal orientation, that unconditionally supported the monarchy and aimed at countering nationalist Istiqlal Party. Although the party has been dominated by Berber speakers, it has not developed a distinct Berber agenda. The present part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohand Laenser
Mohand Laenser (Arabic: محند العنصر; born 1942) is a Moroccan politician and current president of the Popular Movement (Morocco), Popular Movement party and former Minister of the Interior. He was born in Imouzzer Marmoucha. See also * Popular Movement (Morocco), Popular Movement References External links Official website of the popular movement party Moroccan politicians 1942 births Living people People from Fès-Meknès Popular Movement (Morocco) politicians Moroccan Berber politicians {{Morocco-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Union (Morocco)
The Constitutional Union ( ar, الاتحاد الدستوري; zgh, ⴰⵍⵉⵜⵜⵉⴰⴷ ⴰⴷⴷⵓⵔⵜⵓⵔⵉ, translit=Tamunt Tamenḍawant; french: Union constitutionelle) is a political party in Morocco aligned with the ruling monarchy. The party has a history of cooperating with two other parties with a liberal orientation, the National Rally of Independents and the Popular Movement, since 1993. History The grouping was founded by then Prime Minister Maati Bouabid in 1983 and favoured by King Hassan II. In the 1984 parliamentary election, it won the greatest number of seats, but remained far from an absolute majority. Later it became an ordinary party without a special role in Morocco's multi-party system. The party is a full member of Liberal International, which it joined at the latter's Dakar Congress in 2003. Its electoral symbol is a horse. In the parliamentary election held on 27 September 2002, the party won 16 out of 325 seats. In the next parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Bahnini
Ahmed Bahnini (Arabic: أحمد بحنيني; 1909, Fes – 10 July 1971, Rabat) was a Moroccan politician who served as the 4th Prime Ministers of Morocco from 1963 to 1965 under King Hassan II. He also served as President of the Supreme Court. On July 10, 1971, during a celebration of Hassan II's birthday in Skhirat palace, Bahnini was shot dead when mutinying soldiers fired into a crowd of guests during a bloody and unsuccessful military coup attempt. Early life Ahmed was born in Fez, Morocco in 1909, He studied at the University of Al-Karaouine, Abdeslam Serghini was his professor. Career Ahmed Bahnini was appointed prime minister by Hassan II, a week before the promulgation of an amnesty dahir and rehabilitating well-known "collaborators" to the chagrin of the nationalists. This man, at the time of the deposition of Mohammed V had said nothing and had rallied to Mohammed Ben Aarafa, the sultan placed briefly on the throne by the French. In a speech delivered Monday ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan General Election, 1963
Parliamentary elections were held for the first time in Morocco on 17 May 1963. They followed the approval of a constitution in a referendum the previous year. The result was a victory for the pro-Monarchy Front for the Defence of Constitutional Institutions (FDIC), which won 69 seats. However, the two main opposition parties, the Istiqlal Party and the National Union of Popular Forces, won exactly the same number of seats. Voter turnout was 71.8%. However, in November the Supreme Court annulled the results of several seats won by the opposition. By-elections held in January 1964 gave the FDIC control of Parliament,Ketterer, JFrom one chamber to two: The case of Morocco ''Journal of Legislative Studies'', Spring 2001, vol. 7, no. 1, pp.135-150 which was eventually dissolved by King Hassan II in 1965. Indirect elections to the House of Councillors were held on 12 October, with the FDIC winning 102 of the 120 seats.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Parliamentary Election, 2011
Early general elections were held in Morocco on 25 November 2011, brought forward from 2012 and then postponed from 7 October 2011. Public protests as part of the Arab Spring in February 2011 led King Mohammed VI to announce an early election, a process of constitutional reform granting new civil rights, and the relinquishing of some of his administrative powers. Following a referendum on 1 July 2011, the new constitution was ratified on 13 September. Of the Lower House of Parliament's 395 seats, 305 were elected from party lists in 92 constituencies and the additional 90 seats were elected from a national list, with two thirds reserved for women and the remaining third reserved for men under the age of 40. 30 parties participated in the elections, 18 of which gained seats. The vast majority of seats was won by three political groups: the moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD); an eight-party "Coalition for Democracy" (led by the RNI) headed by Morocco's incumbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Parliamentary Election, 2007
Parliamentary elections were held in Morocco on 7 September 2007, the second of King Mohammed VI's reign. Voter turnout was estimated to be 37%, the lowest in Moroccan political history. There were 33 different parties and 13 independent candidates competing for 325 assembly seats. An amount of $61 million was allocated by the Moroccan government to organize the 2007 elections. The number of constituencies was increased from 91 to 95 before this election.Morocco's electoral constituencies increased to 95 People's Daily, 24 August 2007 Interior minister claimed the changes were made "in accordance with objectivity and transparency." However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Parliamentary Election, 2002
General elections were held in Morocco on 27 September 2002. The elections were the first since King Mohammed VI of Morocco had come to the throne in 1999 and international observers saw it as a test of his commitment to democracy. The election saw an Islamist party the Justice and Development Party make strong gains but the outgoing government kept a majority in the Assembly of Representatives. Campaign The election took place under a revised voting system in which 325 deputies were elected from 91 constituencies. The new rules guaranteed women would be at least 10% of the Assembly of Representatives by reserving 30 seats for them. In total 5,865 candidates from 26 political parties and 5 lists of independents stood in the election including 965 female candidates. With many voters illiterate, each party had different symbols such as a car, alarm clock, horse, wasp or lamp which were printed on the ballot paper for voters to select. Even the prime minister, Abderrahmane Yous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Journal Hebdomadaire
''Le Journal Hebdomadaire'' (French for ''The Weekly Journal''; often shortened to ''Le Journal Hebdo'') was a French-language, Moroccan weekly magazine, published between 1997 and 2010.Sylvain MouillardAu Maroc, le «Journal hebdomadaire» jette l'éponge Libération, 2 February 2010 It was cofounded by Aboubakr Jamaï, who also co-founded its Arabic-language counterpart, ''Assahifa Al Ousbouia''. Background An MBA by training, at age 29 Jamaï moved from finance into financial journalism, helping to found the Casablanca-based ''Le Journal''. The magazine was first published on 17 November 1997. As a model, the paper's creators used the Spanish paper ''El País'' because of the way it had started as a weekly paper under Francisco Franco's rule before growing into a media conglomerate. The journal's circulation was initially small, with the first issue selling only 3,000 copies, primarily to a business audience. However, the journal soon grew by word-of-mouth, attracting a non-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Union (Morocco)
The Democratic Union (french: Union Démocratique) is a political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded by Buazza Ikken in November 2001. At the last legislative elections in Morocco, elections, held on 27 September 2002, the party won ten out of 325 seats. References 2001 establishments in Morocco Political parties established in 2001 Political parties in Morocco {{Morocco-party-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Popular Movement
The National Popular Movement (french: Mouvement National Populaire) was a political party in Morocco. History and profile The party was founded in 1991, as a split of the Popular Movement, under veteran Berber politician and former defense minister Mahjoubi Aherdane, and is known to have a very strong Berber element. At the legislative elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold Public administration, public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative ... on 27 September 2002, the party won 18 out of 325 seats. The party was dissolved and merged back into the Popular Movement in 2006. References 1991 establishments in Morocco Political parties established in 1991 Political parties in Morocco {{Morocco-party-stub Political parties disestablished in 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berber Languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight,, ber, label=Tuareg Tifinagh, ⵜⵎⵣⵗⵜ, ) are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They comprise a group of closely related languages spoken by Berber communities, who are indigenous to North Africa.Hayward, Richard J., chapter ''Afroasiatic'' in Heine, Bernd & Nurse, Derek, editors, ''African Languages: An Introduction'' Cambridge 2000. . The languages were traditionally written with the ancient Libyco-Berber script, which now exists in the form of Tifinagh. Today, they may also be written in the Berber Latin alphabet or the Arabic script, with Latin being the most pervasive. Berber languages are spoken by large populations of Morocco, Algeria and Libya, by smaller populations of Tunisia, northern Mali, western and northern Niger, northern Burkina Faso and Mauritania and in the Siwa Oasis of Egypt. Large Berber-speaking migrant communities, today numbering about 4 million, have been livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
